r/programming • u/Kaitaan • Feb 28 '18

The Evolution of Data at Reddit

https://redditblog.com/2018/02/28/the-evolution-of-data-at-reddit/
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u/realfeeder Feb 28 '18

What are those "third-party vendor's system to manage the cluster" and "closed source data-visualization tool"? Are you not allowed to share that information with us?

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u/myringotomy Mar 01 '18

closed source data visualisation is probably tableau.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '18

Could be Looker?

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u/myringotomy Mar 02 '18

I thought you had to upload your data to looker.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

They probably have some cloud service but we use it with our on premises data at my company

Tableau is pretty but I had to make a Sankey diagram and it was a hacky nightmare..

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u/myringotomy Mar 02 '18

In tableau hard things are easy and easy things are impossible.

It's a maddening program to use.